Outercurve Foundation Accepts New Open-Source ASP.NET Project

The Outercurve Foundation, formerly the CodePlex Foundations, has accepted a new project, WebsitePanel, into the foundation's ASP.NET gallery.

The Outercurve Foundation has announced its acceptance of the WebsitePanel project into the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery.

The Outercurve Foundation, formerly known as the
CodePlex Foundation, is a not-for-profit foundation providing software
IP management and project development governance to enable and
encourage organizations to develop software collaboratively in open
source communities for faster results, foundation officials said. WebsitePanel was contributed by privately-held SMB SAAS Systems Inc., the developer of DotNetPanel.

According to Outercurve, WebsitePanel is an
easy-to-use control panel for Windows hosting that enables developers
and hosting companies to manage multiple servers, websites, FTP
accounts, databases and other resources. A successor of the DotNetPanel
control panel, a commercial product released in 2006, WebsitePanel was
completely re-written and released as open source in 2010. WebsitePanel
is governed by the BSD license.

"We are pleased to accept WebsitePanel, an open
source project that eases management of Windows websites and hosting
environments," said Paula Hunter, executive director of the Outercurve
Foundation, in a statement. "WebsitePanel strengthens the ASP.NET
Gallery and provides a great set of open source web and hosting
management tools for the .NET ecosystem."

The Website Panel project, built on the Windows
platform, works with a variety of third-party products including web
servers, FTP servers, mail servers, database engines, DNS servers and
virtualization technologies.

The Outercurve Foundation has three galleries and
12 projects. Galleries include the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery (six
projects), the Systems Infrastructure and Integration Gallery (three
projects) and the recently-announced Research Accelerators Gallery
(three projects).

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